Lecturer Bios
Rabbi Yona Reiss, Esq.
Rabbi Reiss is the Av Beth Din of the Chicago Rabbinical Council, a Rosh Yeshiva at RIETS, and Chaver Beth Din at the Beth Din of America. A Yadin Yadin musmach of RIETS and an attorney who was an associate for six years at the international law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Rabbi Reiss is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal. He was previously the Max and Marion Grill Dean of RIETS, and before that he served as Director of the Beth Din of America. Rabbi Reiss is a member of the editorial board of Tradition, and has published articles in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Law Journal.
Jordana Mondrow, Esq.
Ms. Mondrow manages the commercial and matrimonial din torah docket and serves as the primary contact point for litigants and attorneys with cases before the Beth Din. She is a graduate of Rutgers University School of Law- Newark and holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a master’s degree in Modern Jewish History from The Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. Prior to her association with the Beth Din, she practiced real estate and commercial litigation law and worked pro bono for victims of domestic violence.
